My father in law actually does sometimes call my mother in law his "first wife". He has no second--they've been married for 34 years. He just likes to rile her up. :) I don't think he would put it on a cake though.

Now, now. For all we know, "Dad" could be a drag queen. Or maybe a designer who specializes in purses and high heels. So that "purse-and-shoe" design could be totally appropriate for a 40th birthday...

Oh, my. I was stunned into silence by the purse-and-glass-shoe cake for Dad, but the teeny weeny heart cake made me guffaw so loudly that the dog galloped across the house and into my office to see what was wrong.

Cynthia's shaver cake (and commentary) had me LOL at work! I'm wondering what would happen if it were a waxing...The whole scenario reminds me of the scene in American Wedding when Jason Biggs decides to shave his privates for his fiancee the day before the wedding. (and then he shook out the bathmat outside the window, where the hair got sucked into a kitchen exhaust fan and got stuck all over the cake. Now THERE's a cake wreck!)

Poor dad! what a pitiful cake! btw, red and purple are the red hat society's colors (a "mature" ladies' group). I wonder if this is one of their cakes with a Cindy shoe slapped on it. WHAT'S THE LOGIC of ordering a cake like this for dad? is dad confused about his gender these days? does he have some cross dressing hobbies? is he a big Disney fan? Is this a dis because of Dad's "issues"? or are they showing him they accept him as he is, dress and all?

my head hurts.

I LOVE the cookie! another dis cake! I love you just a tiny bit you lying jerk! even the word "love" is written small. and the afterthought arrow stands out since it is all white with no extra chocolate like the rest of the letters. HAHA!

ooh, two cake wrecks in one movie! the engagement cake got wrecked too. they don't show the clip of what Stifler did to it (he played with the lettering) but then it got smashed in his crotch (and then the dog got hungry...)

about one minute into the clip is the shaving/cake clip. much briefer than the actual scene...Cynthia, don't try this at home.

I'll bet a young daughter had a large hand in picking out the cake for Dad's 40th birthday.

We get cookie cakes for our dog's birthday (because, what a great excuse to get a cookie cake!) and we let my daughter pick out the design. When she was three she picked a cat design... for the dog. I said, "Hey, what about this dog design? Bailey's a dog, after all." And my very logical three year-old said, "Yeah, but she likes cats, so she will like a cat cake."

Thanks for explaining the Cinderalla slipper. I thought it was a pair of salad tongs. I was trying really hard to make sense of it: maybe the tongs were reaching for that cherry in the punch bowl? Yeah, the purse and slipper make more sense. Kind of.

No Whitney Suzanne, my mil and I do NOT like each other. She's under the impression, SHE comes first, she told me so! I told her that I now come first! course she also told me not many people had died in her family till I came along, I killed them all! the lady is loopy!

As for the cakes, arg, what don't people get, is there no one in the dept. that says "uh NO, you may NOT put that out!" Kind of like the marketing dept. @ Apple, where were the women when they though up Ipad? DUH, makes me scared that people who makes cakes like that also can run our states and government!

I typically refer to my husband as "my first husband". The funny part is he WAS married before so there isn't much he can say in return. Instead, he likes to call me "his trophy wife" since we have a large age difference (and he is therefore my "sugar daddy"). Sometimes we refer to our marriage as "a one-night stand gone horribly wrong". Five children and 15 years later, it's still funny.

oh gosh, where does one start? Now, is that for a bikini, brazillan or just a little off the top? AND the Dad 40th cake? We're just lettin' you know about what we know about that special valise bag you have hidden in the closet...

My husband refers to me as his first wife... but then adds ONLY. Which is very rare in our group of friends. I can't imagine it on a cake, though, unless there's some truth that once the guy retires, he drives the wife mad. (and AWAAAY)

(I refuse to discuss his mother)

As to dad's BD cake with princess slipper and purse -- I think his little daughter picked it out for him. "It was so cuuute, daddy! It made ME happy seeing it, so I decided it must make YOU happy, too!"

I just love your blog. You are the Jay Leno of Cake Wreaks. Its your comments that really puts the funny over the top. When I first discover Cake Wreaks I spent every spare minute going over the archives. I think my son though I was nuts as I would be laughing every few minutes or calling him over to come see this one. I also love Sunday Sweets. You got me looking at bakery sites just to look at all the wonderful cakes that I will never eat but still enjoy. Doesn't the Ps on the cookie cake in the word Happy kind of look like Rs. Harry Birthday?

Lauren said:My mama always swears that when my daddy retires, she's going to kick the bucket and then he'll get a new wife and take her on cruises with his retirement money. Maybe she's not the only one who thinks that.....

Omg that 1st wife crack is always funny. I might have to get my dad a cinderella cake for his 80th birthday..I was thinking of a death cake...you know with a grim Reaper and old fart written on it...but do think that would be going to far? lol

I'm not sure the purse cake qualifies as a wreck. It looks to me like someone bought a "professional" cake with a purse on it (maybe for the Dad who is particularly pink-phobic) and then added poorly done writing, a shoe, and a 40 candle. This would make it an "amateur" ruining a professional cake.

Oh my.. that 40th birthday cake is just scary. I thought at first it was for a woman but nooooooooooo it had to be for someones dad. Poor guy. Lol I bet they had to take him somewhere special to make up for the evil cake. And that retirement cake would have been beautiful if not for the first wife comment. How many wives is he planning on nabbing in retirement? A harem? lol.

For Dad's 40th Birthday, clearly they had a GOOD cake ordred and paid for....and then it got dropped or something, and the ONLY cake they had left was the purse-and-shoe version, hastily written on (over the design!) and with the candles salvaged and stuck on.

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